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Research Objectives:
Connie Samaras is a Professor in the Department of Studio Art and an Affiliated
Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at the University of California Irvine. Her
NSF proposal is to photograph the new station being built at Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station,
as
well
as other structures there, in such a way as to emphasize the liminal space
between
life support architecture and extreme climate. Her project title, "Vast
active
living
intelligence system" (borrowed from sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick), reflects
her interest in depicting Antarctica as a place of multiple and often contradictory
intersections of technology, culture, nature, space and time. As in all her work,
she’s interested in picturing the multiplicity of realities that exist in any
given moment or place but which often go unseen, not because of a failure of
optics but because of a (sometimes necessary) lack of perception.
In addition to being a participant in the Artists and Writers program, other recent awards include Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship (2003), Durfee Foundation ARC Grant (2002), Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Visual Arts Fellowship C.O.L.A (2002), and the Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute (2002).
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